Development of an Effective and Engaging Instructional Design and Technology Course

Abstract

This paper aims to develop an effective and engaging instructional design technology (IDT) course. Pre-service teachers (PSTs) designed lesson plans and answered questionnaires before and after the IDT course. The result revealed that the IDT course was beneficial independent of the PSTs’ specific subjects. The PSTs could design lessons in terms of Gagné’s Nine Events of Instruction theory and the ARCS model. The allowance to view the checklists of ID theories can be considered to support the PSTs to design lessons in terms of the IDs. However, the PSTs do not seem to identify mathematics content or concept between advanced mathematics knowledge. A further direction will focus not only on the pedagogical aspect but also on content aspects.